Blogs from Northern Norway, Norway, Europe - page 40

Hei jeg heter Mari Lise, og for de som er ukjente for meg og skulle komme over denne bloggen så er jeg altså 19, snart 20 år og bor i Hadsel i Vesterålen. Det er altså bare litt over en måned til jeg reiser til Australia og videre til New Zealand. Derfor denne bloggen som antakeligvis blir å fungere som en slags dagbok:P Billetten er betalt og visum er bestilt, alt ser ut til å ordne seg!:) Har absolutt ikke gått opp for meg enda, men kanskje når jeg får billetten i posten om en ukes tid..? Det blir en fin julepresang! Her bor jeg! http://www.travelblog.org/gmaps/map_w1.html ... read more

Motorhome News from Europe 30. Sweden August 2005 Abisko in Sweden and west to Norway’s beautiful Lofoten Islands There is a chair lift in Sweden’s largest National Park at Abisko. Rising to about 3,000ft, the Linbana lift ferries skiers to the top in winter and walkers and tourists in the summer. We took the easy way up and hiked the five-hour trail across wild hill-bog rich with flowers, down to the dense birch forest and scrubby willow deep in the valley below. We went there for the walking and to see the birds of course; and we were not disappointed. Even as we ascended in the cable car a hawk owl flew across our path and perched on a tree below, and a pair of willow grouse with their young looked up as we passed. A ... read more

Motorhome News from Europe 29 Norway July 2005 Europe - from the top down. Northern Norway Nordkapp. The most northerly point of Europe, on the island of Magoya. Picture a magnificent cliff, ragged peaks and tiny dark islands. Picture a knot of people bent into the wind at a lookout point high above a raging sea, gazing north to the distant horizon, dreaming of snow and ice, polar bears, brave explorers, and the North Pole, just 1,100Km distant. Then, dream on. As David, a young Polish hitch-hiker plucked from the roadside in the bitter arctic wind and rain described it, ‘The Visitor Centre was a bit like MacDonalds.’ We had already put the 1989 built Visitor Centre at Nordkapp in the Mickey Mouse category of Disney, but it serves its purpose well, bringing tourists and their ... read more

Motorhome News from Europe 28. Finland July 2005. Out of Finland into the wastes of Norway’s Finmark There is not a lot in Inari at first glance. It’s one of those places you could just pass through on your way to somewhere else and there are, after all, few roads from Finland through to Norway in the north. For most people Inari is on the way to, or from, Nordkapp, (North Cape) on the island that claims to be the most northerly point in Europe. We were on our way there too, but first we wanted to visit the outstanding Sami (Lapp) Museum, built since Janice’s last visit to Inari umpteen years ago. There are many such museums in Scandinavia, but this one should rank amongst the best, for not only does it truly value these ... read more